Excess nutrients such as phosphorus (P) in watersheds jeopardize water quality and trigger harmful algal blooms. Capturing nutrients from wastewater and agricultural runoff is an essential step to develop a circular nutrient system, which can not only recover lost nutrients, but also prevent...

This paper documents the long-term dynamic participation into the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China, which has been expanded to nearly universal coverage. Although the NRPS is highly subsidized and strongly promoted by Chinese government, a large proportion of residents procrastinate in...

Using a nationally representative data in China, this study applies a difference-in-difference method to estimate the effect of long-term care insurance (LTCI) on spousal labor supply. First, we find LTCI increases the probability of spousal labor participation by 3.4 percentage points and...

Healthcare waste (HCW) management plays a vital role in the development of modern society. In HCW management, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a popular method to implement risk management for improving the quality of healthcare. However, the shortcomings of the traditional FMEA...

Does the launch of an Analytics and Data Science (ADS) graduate program increase the ADS job opportunities in its local area? Using job postings data and a difference-in-difference event-study design, we find that an ADS program increases the number of job postings by 11.2 and the number of ADS...

We examine how the presence of a firm’s political connections in a candidate location affects the firm’s likelihood of choosing that location over unconnected but otherwise comparable ones to establish a new subsidiary. First, because of various benefits that political connections can...